To create this card I scored and folded a sheet of A4 white card to make an A5 landscape card blank.

I ran the blue card through the embossing folder and added to the front of my card.

After printing my image, I covered her with the drawing gum which makes a mask. Once this was dry I then stamped the background. After colouring my background I removed the drawing gum by rubbing with my finger which leaves the white image ready for colouring.

I edged the finished topper with distress ink and added to the left hand side of my card using wet glue. I then added my sentiment in the middle of the right hand side, again using wet glue.

Finally, I added my snowy acetate to cover the whole image and background and attached using brads in each corner.

To create this card I scored and folded a sheet of white A4 card to make a 8.5in x 4.5in card blank. I used the edgeable die to crease the flourish at the top of my card and added a piece of blue co-ordinations card to the inside.

I ran a piece of blue co-ordinations card through the embossing folder and after colouring my image I die cut her and adhered to the front of my card using foam tape.

To create this card I scored and folded a piece of
A4 white card to make a 5in x 6.5in card blank. To this I added a piece of black card.

After printing my image I covered it with the drawing gum and left to dry which then forms a mask.

I then created the background using the distress inks by swiping over a piece of acetate which I had die cut with the Tattered Lace hill die. I love this technique, I think it looks quite dramatic when finished.

Once my background was dry I rubbed off the drawing gum from my image and then coloured him with my pencils and glitter pens.

I then matt and layered him onto some white card and added to my main card.

Finally, I die cut two flourishes and punched the flowers, added them to my card and finished by adding three red faux gems to the centre of the flowers.

To create this card I scored and folded an A4 white card to make a 15cm x 15cm square card blank.

I then layered up some black card and papers to form the background. After colouring my digi image I die cut her with a circle die and matted her onto some black card before adding to another matt already prepared to form my topper.

Finally, I cut the sentiment out with the fancy scissors and then matted onto black card, again cut with the fancy scissors and added to the bottom right hand side of my card using form tape.

To create this card I scored and folded a sheet of A4 white card to make a 6in x 4.5in card blank. To this I added a piece of teal card.

I printed my image onto white card and then printed her again so that I could create a mask. I stuck the mask on top of my image and created the background using various colours of the acrylic paint.

Once I removed the mask, my image remained white ready for me to colour. I used lots of different mediums to colour her including Sakura Glitter and Metallic pens, Brush pens and Lyra Rembrant Polycolor pencils. This gave lots of different texture to the image.

To create this card I scored and folded a sheet of A4 white card to make a 7.5in x 5in card blank. To this I added a piece of backing card, then a smaller piece of co-ordinations card.

I printed my image onto a piece of white card, then printed another image on copy paper to form a mask.

I placed my mask over my image after spraying with the Stick and Spray and then used various distress inks to create the multi coloured background. Once finished, I peeled off the mask and coloured my image with my pencils.

Finally, I punched three flowers in black and adhered to the flourish die before adding the gems to the centres to complete.

To create this card I scored and folded a sheet of A4 white card to make an A5 portrait card blank. To this, I added a smaller piece of orange card which I had passed through the embossing folder and sanded back to reveal the core colour.

After colouring my image, I die cut and matt and layered onto a piece of yellow card before adding to my main card using wet glue.

Finally, I matt and layered the stamped sentiment and added to the bottom of my card in the centre.

My second DT make this week is using the Phantom Manor and Witch Head images.

To create this card I scored and folded a sheet of A4 white card to make a 15cm x 15cm square card blank. To this I added a piece of 14cm x 14cm black card which I had passed through the embossing folder.

After colouring my image I die cut using one of the square dies and added her to the black card.

I punched three flowers in white and added a black faux gem to the centre of each before adding to the right hand side of my card.

Finally, I fancy cut the sentiment and added to the bottom left hand side of my card to complete.

Sunday, 18 October 2015

Hi everyone, here is one of the projects I have been working on today. Some of you may remember I told you my son asked me to make three Christmas cards for him. He is a care worker and he wants to send some cards to some of his residents. This is the third one I have done. I would be grateful to receive any comments you have.

To create this card I used a sheet of A4 white card and scored and folded it to make a 15cm x 15cm square card blank. I ran the front of my card through the embossing folder.

After colouring my image I die cut using the Spring insert die then cut around her using one of the fancy rectangle dies and matt and layered onto a piece of purple satin board then added it to my card using foam tape.

I die cut the flowers and after embossing them layered them up, added some white punched flowers and the faux gems to the centres.

Finally, I added the butterfly embellishment to the bottom left hand side of my card.

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Hi everyone, here is one of the projects I have been working on today. You may remember I told you my son asked me to make three Christmas cards for him. He is a care worker and he wants to send some cards to some of his residents. This is the second one I have done. I would be grateful to receive any comments you have.

Hi everyone, here is one of the projects I have been working on today. My son asked me to make three Christmas cards for him. He is a care worker and he wants to send some cards to some of his residents. This is the first one I have done. I would be grateful to receive any comments you have.

To create this project I cut a piece of red card measuring 9 and 3/4" x 5 and 1/2". I then scored this at 4 and 3/8" and 5 and 3/8". this makes the book shape.

I added a piece of black ribbon to the front and back before adding some of the backing papers which I had matt and layered onto green card both outside and inside.

Next I cut 2 pieces of white paper measuring 4" x 9" and 2 measuring 5" x 9". I then scored all four pieces at 1/2" intervals along the long sides.

Next I concertina folded these four pieces and burnished using a bone folder to get a good crease. The next step is a bit tricky, you need to connect one long and one short piece to create a right-angle by slotting the two pieces together and gluing to secure. You then do this to the next two pieces and then join the four together to make the frame. This then looks like a book from the sides. (See last picture above.) I hope this makes sense.

I then glued the frame to the inside of the card and die cut a frame to fit over the edges to give a neat finish. You can then place whatever you like in the centre of this frame (ie scented candles, gingerbread men etc). I have left it empty as my son's residents are all 80 plus so I thought he might like to add something appropriate for them.

To create this card I used white cardstock and cut the main section using the Tattered Lace die. Next I cut some pieces in black from the dies and painted these using the Pebeo paints before adhering to my main stepper card.

After colouring my image I fussy cut around her leaving a white edge, inked the edges with the distress ink and added her to the left hand panel of my card using foam pads.

I cut the window and flowers in white and black before adding them to two of the right hand panels.

Finally, I added the sentiment to the bottom left hand panel to complete.

First of all. you need to print out the digi image onto white cardstock using a laser printer. If you want to foil an image, you have to use a laser printer or have the image copied at a photocopy shop. Foiling will not work when using an ink jet printer.

﻿

Next, insert the image into a carrier sheet and add a piece of teal foil on top, then pass through a hot foiling machine.

The result is a fabulous teal foiled high heel shoe image which I think is pretty impressive.

Cut out four of the small foiled high heel shoes.

Next, run two pieces of the teal mirror card and white cardstock through the embossing folder. This is one of Sheena Douglass' called distress. Next, take the Tonic dies and cut the image out first, then another two different sizes, one in white card and one in the waste card.

The base card has been folded in half then the front panel folded back on itself to create the shape.

Matt and layer the two pieces of embossed teal and white card, matt and layer the main topper onto teal mirror card and add to the left-hand panel on the front overlapping to the right-hand side.

Finally, add the small high heel shoes, one on the front of the card at the bottom left and three on the inside of the card on the right.

This is the front view of the finished card when closed.

This is the view of the card when opened.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my tutorial. I would love you to leave some feedback if you have the time.